Casey’s got a really fascinating post which I don’t really understand:
Tempers appeared to be flaring Tuesday at a Turnpike Authority board meeting in which the Patrick administration agreed to a $210 million financial bailout for the Big Dig.
…Asked whether the session was contentious, Transportation Secretary Bernard Cohen said, “The discussion really had to do with … the impact on those people who pay the tolls … It is certainly our hope that this issue of equity that we hear about all the time in terms of the people who pay the tolls, that we can address that issue in some way as part of this broader solution” to the transportation financing deficit in Massachusetts.
(Translation: Cohen and the directors argue over the issue of whether to lean on Mass Pike tollpayers to dig the state out of a financial hole of about $19 billion?It couldn’t have been pretty.)
(I’m leaving out some juicy bits, so go read Casey’s post and click on the Herald’s ads.)
So … I gather that Cohen & co. from the administration rebuked the ‘Pike for assuming they could raise tolls? Or the other way around? Maybe I’m just being dense.
